The University of Findlay - UF Welcomes Students Back to Campus

The University of Findlay welcomes students back to campus beginning Aug. 25. About 800 new undergraduate students are expected. Returning students will arrive Aug. 26-27, and classes will begin Aug. 28.

New students, as well as faculty, staff and volunteers, will participate in service projects within the community Aug. 26. Volunteers will contribute their time to help area organizations paint, organize, clean and complete a variety of other activities.

Fall sports teams, cheerleaders, resident directors and assistants and band members returned to UF beginning Aug. 5 to prepare for a busy fall semester of activities.

Approximately 1,300 students are expected to live on campus while an equal number of students are expected to live off campus in the Findlay area.

Since The University of Findlay purchased the former Owens Community College – Findlay campus in April 2006, much work has been done to prepare the 62,000-square foot main building, located at 300 Davis St., for students, faculty, and staff. The building will house classrooms, laboratories, conference and seminar rooms and offices for the Colleges of Education and the School of Pharmacy.

At the western equestrian farm, students will return to a new riding arena complete with new stalls. Other improvements on campus include new furniture in Bare and Fox residence halls, steady progress on the 8,000-square-foot Mazza Museum addition and the addition of Jazzman’s Café coffee station in the cave located in the Alumni Memorial Union.

UF’s School of Pharmacy has received approval from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education for the next phase of the full accreditation process. The approval means that students entering their third year of the program can begin their first year of professional pharmacy courses this fall, and can progress to a doctor of pharmacy degree after successfully completing the six-year program. Sixty students will enter their third year of the program at UF this fall. An additional 60 students are enrolled in each of the first and second years of the UF pharmacy program.